I admit, we lucked out with a pretty sensitive teacher. She’s involved in adoption herself; her mother was an adoptee back in the day when every adoption (including kinship, in some cases) was a closed adoption. She also made the decision that kids could decide whether or not to share their family trees with their reading group (instead of the entire class). Which was nice, as there were several other kids who had, shall we say, challenges with family tree assignments. We got incredibly lucky. I don’t expect that that’ll happen every year.

Cute, how they all ended up together!